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A brilliant Idea; as far as usability for a normal user is concerned, How feasible is it to modify a browser to take the command directly via the address bar, and internally a thread can handle the ssh part, redirecting the user directly to the newly generated link ?

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Would be feasible as a firefox addon since those have the same privileges as the browser process itself. Afaik chrome's extension APIs are too restrictive to allow for something like that.

Not that hard (I've written Firefox extensions that run external programs), but what would you gain over SSL client certs, which are already supported?

I have an SSH key and use it routinely. I've never used SSL client certs.

At some point in time you'd never used an SSH key, either. And then you did.

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